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uxoricide

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But instead of employing a ball gown, glass slippers, and a grand carriage made from a pumpkin, the renegade maid comes to her damsel in distress armed with a different kind of escape plan—one involving an axe and a double parricide.

— Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 4 Aug. 2026
The Avici hell is the lowest and most terrible level of the eight hot hells of Buddhism, where those who’ve committed serious crimes (like parricide) must face constant suffering.

— Regina Kim, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026

Definition of parricide

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This may be the highest profile local example of fiduciary law since the Menendez brothers’ trials three decades ago, when their family estate spent nearly $2 million to unsuccessfully defend them in the patricide of their parents.

— Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 17 Aug. 2026
Bass in June 2024 saw the patricide plan to it to its end, reducing his father, Gene Bass, to a crumple outside a neighbor’s house in the orderly subdivision where Xavier grew up near North Crowley High School.

— Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Aug. 2026

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They were rewarded for their regicide when Thatcher’s successor, John Major, unexpectedly won the following election in 1992.

— Ian King, CNBC, 24 June 2026
Unlike the Conservative Party, however, Labour does not have a history of regicide; the party has never mounted an official challenge against a sitting prime minister.

— Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 11 May 2026

Definition of regicide

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Clancy’s case could be classified as filicide — a parent killing their own children — or a triple homicide.

— Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 15 Sep. 2026
Each year in the United States there are nearly 500 arrests for filicide – which is the legal term for when parents kill their children – according to an analysis of FBI data by Forensic Science International.

— Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2026

Definition of filicide

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Pembroke Pines officers asked the sheriff’s office to handle the homicide investigation — John retired from the Pembroke Pines Police Department following nearly 28 years of service and his on-duty motorcycle crash.

— Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 22 Sep. 2026
The Harris County Medical Examiner's office determined her death was a homicide resulting from neck compression.

— Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026

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